Welcome to Litsy!

This 600+ page novel takes place in a future where sea level rise has submerged lower Manhattan, squatters dwell among the moldering ruins, and the wealthy own vacant apartments in impossibly high skyscrapers. A lot happens, but the pleasure of this book lies in the detailed world building, the vivid cast of characters, and the possibility of real, meaningful change. Somehow my least depressing climate change read so far!

(2017) It's a chunkster of ensemble fiction, following residents of the Met Life building in a future where lower Manhattan has flooded, becoming a sort of Eastern US version of Venice. Mixed feelings: I loved the setting, the ideas, and the way the disparate plot threads tied together. But the prose is frequently polemic, the characters relationships are not always well motivated, and the ending is excessively optimistic.

Slowly making my way through this tome. Not loving every one of the POVs but overall still enjoying where this story is going.

It wasn't a bad book, by any means, but it was bloated with meandering side plots that didn't benefit the story, half baked characters and unnecessary and clunky chapters by 'the citizen' which I'm guessing was meant to provide context or something? To me it just broke the flow of the story.

Forgot to post this last night...oops! I didn‘t like the tagged book but it got me thinking about climate change. #thankfulthursday

1. My mom had a name picked out for me (Bridget) but late in her pregnancy, she met a good friend of my grandmother‘s named Cynthia, and she thought it was a pretty name and went with that instead. I wish she had stuck with her original choice! 😂
2. That my family is still healthy and for The Golden Girls on Hulu!

I took almost no pictures on today‘s 6.5-mile #audiowalk. Here‘s a slough that‘s more or less parallel to the sugar beer sculptures, but on a different path.

My attitude towards NEW YORK 2140 had officially shifted from, “This is interesting and I really like it,” to, “This is so cool! I love it!” Many Littens tried it as cli-fi for Booked, but I think it‘s as much econopunk as anything. Lots of discussion & reimagining of economics.

I saw about a million deer on tonight‘s #audiowalk. (Or I saw ten deer. Whichever.) A couple of them came pretty close to me.

The deeper I get into NEW YORK 2140, the more I enjoy it. Yeah, it‘s probably overlong, but I like how Robinson layers his many characters‘ stories. I‘m getting a big kick out of the semi-fictionalized New York history segments, too.

I saw some public art on tonight‘s #audiowalk. I assume these are supposed to be heirloom carrots?

I‘m halfway through NEW YORK 2140 now and I‘m still enjoying it, though I think there‘s a pretty good chance I‘ll find it overlong in the end. I can live with that.

I saw a muskrat on my #audiowalk! At first glance I thought it was a very small beaver, which would‘ve been a new one for around here.

NEW YORK 2140 has a terrible Litsy rating, but I‘m enjoying it so far. It‘s got an interesting variety of perspectives and all the performers are great. I‘m eager to see how it develops.

Overall, I didn‘t enjoy this book (so long and so many characters), but it did what I think all cli-fi is supposed to do. It got me thinking about the many kinds of catastrophic events awaiting our planet and it‘s #incipient death.
#beautifulwords

I think this is the last book I read that involves a disaster. I didn‘t really enjoy it all that much! Thanks for the tag @Andrew65

#KeepLitsyActive #disasters

7 covers you love for 7 days #7covers7days

Terrible novel, but a stunning cover

I wonder if #summernightcity in NYC will still include Block Parties, Beach Parties, Playing In Fire Hydrants, Skelsie tournaments, Street Festivals and Shakespeare In The Park? #wanderingjune

Perusing through the Barnes and Noble in Redondo Beach and stumbled upon this gem. Has anyone read this? Read the summary/back matter, and whoa! As a native New Yorker this seems like a must read dystopian. #newyork2140

I started reading this last night and DNF at 3%. The first chapter is very....preachy. And the dialogue is bad. It felt like an in person rambling conversation. Then I saw its 624 pages. I‘m not reading this type of dialogue for that many pages. The concept for this is super interesting and I want to read more in the Cli-Fi genre but this isn‘t it. #CliFi #DNF

Oh man. I think I just picked the wrong book for this prompt for #booked2019. It was so slow! I also felt like it came across as a bit pedantic and needed to be cut down a lot. This was my first experience with “cli-fi”, but I‘m not giving up because there were elements that I found interesting, such as the unique idea of a the city under water and the description, but overall, this was a rough book to get through. #cli-fi

#Booked2019 #spring #CliFi Gee,I finish this book on Earth Day. With 2 major flood events , sea level is 5o ft. higher in NYC.The avenues are now canals ,the rich move further north & build super scrapers & call it Super Venice while some struggle to sustain water logged buildings about to topple .Toxic investment still plays the game.Pick w/ an * a little too long w/ too many players, it was a Hugo nominee, kudos to author 4 writing on climate.

Down a sub genre train - I think I‘m going with this one for climate fiction for #booked2019 but it‘s also #solarpunk as a sub genre - @Cinfhen this bunny trail is super interesting! @MrBook I bet you know a lot about sub genres- any lists in that direction? Here‘s a link to unique ones: https://www.bustle.com/p/7-book-sub-genres-that-are-so-extremely-specific-you-pr...

#Booked2019 #spring #CliFi Beer,Book, another wild Caturday night! About a fourth of the way through ,good storytelling along with climate change themes.😨

As someone familiar with the city, I found the concept of a flooded New York interesting, as well as how humanity rebuilt after a global catastrophe. But the fact that this book is so long and has so many characters (none of whom I connected with) detracted from the story for me. Plus, there are many parts where it talks about science and economics and was very technical. And by that, I mean boring. 😝
#booked2019 #clifi

Enjoyed the lunch date with my friend Sarayu and took advantage of the Barnes and Noble #bookhaul sale. Almost done with the Percy Jackson series and wanted to start the next one soon so when I saw it on sale and had to get it!

#barnesandnoble #rickriordan #percyjackson #mpls #twincities

#CurrentRead 📖 👀Not too sure how I feel about this book yet, kind of interesting but then kind of
not 🤷🏻‍♀️

#BookNerd 💙📚🤓

Talking this big ol‘ book.

Someone forgot his book club is meeting tomorrow, so he's decided to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon binge reading. Naturally, I'm a very willing accomplice in this endeavor.❤ #bookdatesarethebestdates

Interesting premise about a near-future where climate change has caused coastal areas to flood. Sadly the characters didn‘t really catch my attention. I was never convinced that this ragtag group of people would ever become friends or work towards the fairly radical goal of economic change. I‘ll be surprised if this wins the #hugo but I admit, I‘m rooting for Jemisen to win this year.

Man, this is taking awhile to get into.

Time for my next Audible listen!

It was a bit outlandish and there were too many storylines that I wanted to fold together more neatly. I didn‘t hate it, but I‘d only recommend to those who love post-apocalyptic stories (even though that‘s not exactly what this was).

If I continue reading the 2018 Hugo SF awards this one would be next up, but I'm not sure if I'm interested. It's long and some of the reviews aren't complimentary.

Can anyone say nice things about it?

Happy Thanksgiving, Litsy family!🦃🍁🍽 @MrBook and I are so grateful for all of you, for our work, for our health, for our family and friends. ❤️ We have embarked on our road trip to visit family. Making good use of the ride by listening to this audiobook, coming up for one of our book clubs soon. 😁👌🏻

The author created an interesting premise, and a couple decent characters, but I could not stand the daytrader/ quant dude who was focused on getting laid. When he started to complain that a detour rescuing some kids and an injured old man had ruined his date's mood, I turned it off. When are men going to stop treating women as objects with a right to feel their own feelings?

Taking a break from Origin with this baby. Venice like New York of the future? Hmmmm

What you got for me? We're off to a beach retreat right after we put the rings on.

Looking for something I can sit back and relax with while I enjoy my stress-free time away from work. Had to save all my PTO this year for this.

Stumped? Tag someone else you think can help me out.

Capitalism as Ponzi scheme. This book has a lot more about investment and the economy than I expected. It's fascinating!

#TBRtemptation post 5! When you're done with 1920s London, take a trip to NYC in a little over 100 years with a foremost futurist. Released in March. In this NYC, the waters rose, turning the streets into canals a la. Venice. It bustles as much as ever. Every skyscraper's an island. View it all through the eyes of one tower's varied residents. KSR is a favorite author of mine. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎

I'm also reading this book right now. So far I have mixed feelings about it. It has 7 MCs and some are really getting on my nerves and you can see that this book was written by a white allocishet male author 🙄

Really loved this book--engaging story, super characters, and a great perspective on climate disaster, namely, it's going to happen, and we'll deal with it when it does. The different character perspective in each chapter was nowhere near as annoying as I thought it would be, and the running commentary on climate change was informative without being shrill. Highly recommended!

"Crap in the Cloud. A novel of celestial sewage. I coulda written that one myself. Been down so long it looks like up to me." - Either Robinson listens to Drake or Drake is into climate change-based sci-fi

But people are blind to a bubble they're inside, they can't see it. And that is cool if you happen to have an angle of vision that allows you to see it. - Franklin

Gorgeous day to sit by the river, crack open a new book, and feel the sun on my face. 😀 Apparently global warming has created some issues in the future ...

I saw this today and reeeeeaallyy wanted to buy it, but it was $28!! Has anyone read it? It sounded fantastic! #want

Halfway through on audio. Interesting concept, super smart, but the characters are pretty flat and/or boring. The book's narrative is also quite choppy, and every chapter has 2-4 quotes preceding it. I mean, I get it. New York is the greatest city in the world, people will live there even if becomes a radioactive swamp. Got it. Thanks.

i don't care what *that citizen* says, this book made me happy!

i'm enjoying this book SO MUCH
i don't want it to end

So, remember last week when I posted the photo on the left and mentioned that all I could think about was the book I *didn't* get? Well, I couldn't stand it anymore, so I went back and got it! And the two remaining titles in the Alien trilogy too! Now I just need to carve out some SFF binge-reading time! #TBR 🗽

this made me choke on my bourbon 👏🏾😂

#coffee #🍀

I know this will make the SO pretty happy. It's gigantic!!

It's release day for this 614 page monster! I love a good post-apocalyptic novel, and a flooded but thriving NYC sounds interesting. But at over 600 pages ... I might wait until someone else reads it first and tells me it's worth it!